29-30 October 2007

The increase in cross-border mobility, on both a physical level and a technological or imaginary one, and the resulting incorporation of a diversity of cultures, agents and problems of a transnational nature all serve to call into question our physical-political and culturally delimited community within the formula of the Nation-State. The area of culture has become a space of conflict in which diverse collective interests, cultural habits, community expectations, symbolical beliefs, etc. are negotiated beyond national limits and perspectives. When identity is created from the frontiers of contact, and when the progressive mobility of labour, culture and geography causes this identity to multiply and be constantly re-created according to the context and the interlocutor, the question is: how are these cultural reference points constructed? How can they be inserted into political and social strategies? How can a political account be given of this diversity that is in a constant flux of appearance and disappearance?

This forum has been created as an auxiliary research support for doctorate students from different disciplines, universities and countries; it represents a new, annual event that aims to open up a specialised discussion to the wider public, as a new way of focusing the actual forum's debates and as a new space to facilitate the presentation and discussion of the various analyses.

Ponencias del seminario:

>> Panel I Identidades e Imaginarios como práctica intercultural (pdf 235kB)

>> Panel II La construcción de los imaginarios y la producción cultural (pdf 255kB)

>> Panel III ¿Es posible una relación entre Institucionalidad e Interculturalidad? (pdf 209kB)

>> Panel IV ¿Qué transformaciones precisan los formatos tradicionales del Estado-Nación y la ciudadanía? (pdf 320kB)

>> Panel V Nuevos Espacios de Negociación Intercultural (pdf 400kB)

For more information:

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